The Second Integration Helps Build a Global Community of Shared Future

Today, the world is undergoing momentous changes unlike anything seen in the past 100 years. If we are to overcome our common challenges and ensure lasting peace and development for our world, then the right choice for all of humanity is to build a global community of shared future. However, hegemonism, and especially deep-rooted cultural hegemonism, has become a major obstacle preventing the world from joining forces to create such a community. Realizing equal treatment and harmonious coexistence among our diverse civilizations is essential in order to secure a bright future for humanity.

The second integration is a good example of inclusiveness, mutual learning, exchange, and innovative development among different civilizations and shatters the myth that a single civilization must dominate the world and forcefully assimilate all other civilizations 

Marxist theory has its origins in Western culture, coming into existence amid the rise of modern industrial society. The fact that it was possible to integrate Marxism with China's traditional culture is a testament to the innovative and inclusive nature of Chinese civilization. It was this nature that allowed Chinese Communists to combine Marxism with China’s traditional culture in order to create a socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, which in turn, resurrected Chinese civilization from its lowest point and saw our nation once more standing tall and proud among the nations of the world. This serves as a template for how ancient civilizations can pursue rejuvenation while preserving and innovating their own time-honored traditions. It opens the way for a brighter and more prosperous future where the diverse cultures of the world can all flourish in their own unique way.

The second integration provides strong support for building a global community of shared future by opening a successful path for non-Western civilizations to achieve equal status in inter-civilizational dialogue

Today, various countries and regions with rich and diverse civilizations are exploring their own unique paths to modernization. Identifying the best way for these diverse civilizations to coexist and interact is a pressing task in the endeavor to build a global community of shared future. The second integration shows us how we can successfully tap the contemporary value of history and culture. It offers us a way to creatively transform and innovate traditional culture in the course of pursuing modernization. This experience provides an effective approach for ancient civilizations to deal with the challenges of embracing modernity and engage in inter-civilizational dialogue on an equal footing.

Editor: Li Xiaoqiong